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The government has approved a 16-million-euro-plus project to monitor fishing boats with satellite technology, a representative from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said. With the funds, equivalent to some US$23.8 million, loaned by France, the three-year project will equip more than 3,000 local boats with messaging systems and image broadcasting devices that allow [...]
Storm No. 8, Koppu, will bring heavy rains to north and central Vietnam. Meanwhile, the ninth storm of the year in Vietnam’s East Sea has appeared off the Philippine coast, reports the National Hydrometeorology Forecast Centre. Centre Director Bui Minh Tang said the new storm, called ‘Choiwan’ is at level 9 and it can reach level [...]
The tropical storm in the East Sea became a storm this morning, September 10. This is the seventh typhoon in the East Sea so far this year, and it may affect northern Vietnamese provinces. At 4am on September 10, the storm’s eye was around 440km East – Northeast of the Hoang Sa peninsula (Paracel …
By September 7, 2009, there had been 10,918 petitions submitted for compensation from Vedan for losses caused by pollution totalling nearly 1.3 trillion dong. Farmers living along the Thi Vai river are awaiting Vedan’s compensation. Chairman of the Dong Nai Province Farmers’ Association, Tran Nhu Dong, told VietNamNet on September 7 that Vedan announced it [...]
The HCM City People’s Committee continues to pursue its proposal to increase fines on traffic violations within the city to curtail traffic jams and accidents. The city has once again asked the Prime Minister to permit the country’s two largest cities, Hanoi and HCM City, to double fines for traffic violations. The Ministry of Transportation [...]
Some Vietnamese workers are really angry that all they got from going to Russia to work was beatings and harassment. Vihacoop’s representatives meet with 39 workers at the head office of the Department of Overseas Labor Affairs. At times when they have been frustrated beyond endurance by the inability of local authorities to satisfy a [...]
Singer Truong Phi Nga (left) participates in the Voices of Young People music contest, held in Ca Mau Province to celebrate the National Day. Peace, love and youth are the themes celebrated by amateur performers in a contest featuring folk and traditional music in Viet Nam’s southernmost province of Ca Mau. The Voices of Young [...]
The capital will launch projects to build such dormitories for some 100,000 students next month. The capital will launch projects to build dormitories for 100,000 students next month, according to Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Phi Thai Binh. More than VND600 billion (US$33 million) has been earmarked by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung [...]
The Vietnam Super Star Contest for Vietnamese girls was kicked off with a press conference in HCM City on August 25. According to the organisers, this contest is open to Vietnamese girls between the ages of 16-25. The competition will have three rounds, the qualifier round, the audition round and the final round in HCM [...]
To prevent landslides on the banks of rivers and canals, HCM City needs nearly 4 trillion dong (over $220 million) to upgrade waterways. The city currently has around 980km of rivers and canals. In recent years, landslides along rivers and canals have become serious. At this moment, the city has 114 places at high risk [...]